Chicago taxpayers should pay $9.5 million to a man who spent 19 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a man in a North Side assisted living facility, city lawyers recommended.

McLean County’s jail population appears to be leveling off after a steady rise in the number of detainees over the past few years, though it's too early to say it's a trend.

The Illinois House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to ban indirect quotas for municipal police. Illinois banned state, county and local police from enforcing traffic ticket and arrest quotas in 2015. However, many departments are still forcing officers to meet a set number of traffic stops and citations each month.

The Illinois House on Wednesday approved legislation that would prohibit the federal government from operating a new immigration detention center within 1,500 feet of any home, school, day care center, park, forest preserve, cemetery or place of worship.

As former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan approaches six months in a West Virginia federal prison, the high-profile legal team he hired to handle his appeal made long-awaited arguments Thursday, urging the longtime Democratic power broker’s conviction on bribery and other corruption charges be overturned.

A Democrat-led Illinois Supreme Court is seeking help from a federal judge to affirm its constitutional authority to remove a reinstated Cook County, Illinois, judge from the bench for writing a column in support of President Donald Trump while the judge was retired.